Chapter 320.

Within a space that was full of mists, at this moment, in this space, there were countless figures that were constantly stumbling in the mists.

The mists were thick, but they couldn’t hide the thick age of these figures.

Even the thick wall-like mists could not block it at all, and the aura filled with the sense of age was coming to the surface.

And in the midst of the mists, between the shifting of the figures, a voice, violently came out.

“The Money Monarch is dead!”

With a simple sentence, the countless figures swaying in the mists, violently stopped.

At the same time, another rather majestic voice resounded.

“Not many days ago, he suddenly disappeared, I had thought that he had left this place and gone to the outside world, but I hadn’t thought that he was dead.”

“If he died, he was looking for his own death, this person, Money Monarch, has a bad brain.”

Accompanied by this voice, whispers continued to emanate in this mist, and had a tendency to gradually amplify.

Each whispering voice was filled with the aura of age, as if it was a powerful existence from an ancient era.

“How did he get out?”

Right in the midst of these voices, an abrupt voice suddenly arose.

When this voice rang out, all the whispering voices all stopped and did not continue speaking.

Within the mists, a long silence fell.

Countless figures swayed as if in response to the voice.

A moment later, the voice that had appeared at the very beginning, reappeared.

“We don’t know, and neither do you, but he both went out and died, and the outside world may be stronger than we thought.”

“Now, how many more years have passed, do you know?” A voice asked.

Then, an answering voice came, “I don’t know, this long time, countless mists, has made my sense of age, stronger and stronger at the same time, have forgotten the passage of time.”

Another sharp voice rang out, “And how to get out? If we can find a way for him to go out, we may be able to see the sky again.”

The answering voice paused slightly, “Although it is good to see the light of day again, but we must know the situation in the outside world, if it is still the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms, or an era that is even more peaked than the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms, going out will also be a death.”

At this moment, in the mist, there were only these few powerful figures that were constantly talking to each other.

The other figures kept swaying, patiently listening without any words being emitted.

When the chat reached the last sentence, the scene once again fell into silence.

A moment later, the silence was once again broken.

It was the same voice that had begun to speak first that continued to speak, “What’s the movement on the other side of the stone gate?”

Another voice replied, “A small hole appeared on the stone door’s side, but the other party seems to be extremely cautious, and with this small hole alone, they cannot open the stone door.”

The sharp voice sounded again, “Since he is able to drill a small hole, his strength is bound to be not low, and if he wants to drill a small hole, then he is bound to want to open the stone door, all we need is to wait.”

“Wait, how much longer? This long years down the line, I have already waited enough, if I can’t reach my previous goal, I will not be willing to die even if my lifespan dries up.”

“Then there are two methods, one, is to wait for the people outside the stone door, to open it, the other is to guard it strictly, it might as well see if there are still any cases like the Money Gentleman who was inexplicably taken out.”

These few figures finished exchanging words and seemed to have already made a choice.

As the two plans were uttered, the other figures stopped their constant swaying.

The sense of age was permeating, but none of them uttered a reply, as if they had all acquiesced.

It was at this time that the voice that had spoken at the very beginning finally made a decision.

“This is fine, one day when we go out, the world will eventually be turned upside down, and at that time, we will be the lords of the world.”

The mists gradually gathered, covering all of these figures.

Within this space filled with mists, silence was once again restored.

The original capital of the Great Qi Kingdom was now divided in half and was the territory of the Great Chu Kingdom.

At this moment, Zhou An was in his room, feeling the increasing flow of water and stretching his back.

In front of his eyes, a puff of smoke appeared, eventually transforming into a line of text that appeared in front of him.

[Rising Winds and Waves lv.8 (Wateriness +12, Water Control +12, Healing +12): 1/140,000]

[Arcane Fishing lv.6 (Harvest +8, Unknown +8, Stability +8): 20000/100000]

[Storage Proficiency: 30000/100000]

During this recent period of time, Zhou An was the one who had been silently livering proficiency.

And while he was livering proficiency, his strength during this period of time, had also increased significantly.

Firstly, it was his Xing Feng Zhuo Wave that reached level eight, and before Xing Feng Zhuo Wave reached level eight, the stored proficiency was full once, so he added it to Trick Fishing, which managed to reach a qualitative change, and he chose Xuan Trick Fishing with the same attributes.

Since the remaining proficiency, all of it, was added on top of the Arcane Trick Fishing, the Arcane Trick Fishing had an extra 20,000 points of proficiency.

He then dropped his head and continued to liver Xingfengzhuangwang.

When Xing Feng Zuo Lang reached level nine, the stored proficiency increased by another thirty thousand points.

For Zhou An, this was also a big boost, not only did it usher in a small qualitative change, but Xing Feng Zuo Lang was getting closer and closer to level nine.

What Zhou An wanted to do now was to continue to liver Xingfeng Zuolang to level nine, then he would be able to use the stored proficiency to improve Xuanwei Fishing once more.

Then, he would continue to turn his head to the Xuan Gui Fishing skill, and completely liver this skill to a qualitative change.

At that time, he would be able to reach the All Saints Realm, which meant that he would have the ability to truly stand in the human world.

For the time being, Zhou An had gotten rid of a habit, and he didn’t continue casting now, because what he wanted was to have the ability to directionalize.

From the looks of it, this time, after the Trick Fishing was upgraded to the Xuan Trick Fishing, it didn’t gain the ability of orientation, it just had an additional stabilizing attribute.

This stabilizing attribute was actually not much of an increase in terms of Zhou An’s combat power.

However, there was one benefit, and that was that it would no longer produce unhooking like when he had caught the Money Monarch.

In other words, if he once again threw the fishing rod inside the space that the Money Monarch had spoken of at the beginning, he might be able to hook someone directly in front of him.

As long as it did not go beyond this stable range.

However, Zhou An really didn’t intend to continue fishing again because of this skill’s less than stable relationship, and he was now worried that in case he hooked a very powerful character out, or hooked something weird and strange, he might have a problem by then.

At the very least, it would have to wait until he reached level nine and produced a second qualitative change to the All Saints realm.

It was worth mentioning that ever since the matter of the Money Monarch appeared, the two countries, the Great Chu Kingdom and the Great Yue Kingdom, had instead become closer.

In the beginning, when everyone fought together, it was for the common good, and it was good to be close.

After the Great Qi Kingdom was destroyed, each country went their own way, and although they had dealings with each other, it was still almost that interesting after all.

Now, due to the emergence of a hundred countries of the war of the remnants, now between the two countries, almost like brothers and sisters in general.

From time to time, we can see Eunuch Wei go to the Great Yue country to visit the door, can also see the Far West King bring people over, and the Great Chu country’s peak experts to talk.

Even Zhou An, from time to time, was also visited by the younger generation experts from the Great Yue Country’s side.

Regarding this situation, Zhou An felt that it was instead a good thing, at least for the time being, after the current situation had stabilized, it was good for everyone to be able to work hand in hand to deal with the changes that would follow in the future.

Zhou An, as a person, was currently preoccupied with the word stability, so he continued to liver his proficiency.

After reaching level eight, if he wanted to rise to level nine, he would have to change his method.

The method that Zhou An changed was also very simple, continue to feel the affinity.

And this time, it was different from last time.

Last time, it was to feel the affinity with the air, this time, Zhou An felt the affinity between the water and his divine soul.

It was worth mentioning that the proficiency level actually went upwards, proving that Zhou An’s way was right.

Anniversary yawned and moved his arms and legs.

Black Jade, who was playing with her own chair next to her, suddenly turned her head, her eyes shining brightly, before pulling Zhou An’s hand and looking straight at him with an expression of excitement.

“Go! Go take a bath!”

This kind of tiger and wolf words, only Black Jade could say it.

During this period of time, he was livering his proficiency while Black Jade accompanied him in the water.

From time to time, the two of them made some intimate gestures, and Black Jade liked this interesting event more and more.

In fact, if he wanted to get proficiency, Zhou An would of course go with Black Jade at this time.

However, now was not the time, because he had an important thing to do now.

Zhou An stroked Black Jade’s head and said, “Let’s talk about it later, first go with me to meet two people.”

In Black Jade’s little eyes, although there was some disappointment, it was quickly covered up by happiness, “Go out and play, go out and play.”

During this period of time, the speed of Black Jade’s fusion of the Eight Jedi Techniques became slower.

Of course, this slowness was only a slower speed, not that it was not progressing by an inch.

For Black Jade, she only needed time now, and fusing the Eight Jedi Techniques was a matter of time.

In Zhou An’s thought, perhaps Black Jade could become a powerful existence like no one before or after her, after all, even Xiao He Yun back then, had not yet fused all of the Eight Absolute Techniques.

There were quite a few emotions in his mind, all of which were swept clean by Black Jade, Zhou An held Black Jade’s hand and walked towards the outside.

Outside the door, at this moment, there was already a carriage waiting.

Nowadays, Zhou An’s status, when going out, there was a need to be somewhat sophisticated.

He originally didn’t like to ask for these mundane rituals, but the people of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce were unwilling to do so.

They felt that since they had embraced this thigh, they had to embrace it well, so once Zhou An had something to do to go out or go on a trip to a faraway place, the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce would send someone to come over in advance to take over.

Of course, Zhou An had to tell them about this first.

If they weren’t told, they wouldn’t know.

Zhou An made an exception today, because he was going out to pick someone up, so he had the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce prepare the most luxurious carriage.

At this moment, the same coachman who still regularly gave Zhou An a ride was standing respectfully at the side.

From Zhou An’s perspective, the clothes the coachman wore, and the aura on his body, were already very different from before.

If he was still slightly humble before, he was now able to see a hint of wealth.

It was said that when one man wins, his chicken and his dog rise.

As the coachman who had driven for Zhou An, he had also received a great deal of reuse in the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce, so he had also risen through the ranks.

“Sir Zhou, you’re here.” The coachman bent down respectfully.

Even though his position in the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce had risen through the ranks, he was still the same rickshaw driver rushing the road in front of Zhou An.

In his heart, the coachman was also puzzled as to what other person could be worthy of making Lord Zhou personally go out to greet him, and had the largest carriage of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce at the ready.

But doubts aside, the coachman did not dare to say anything, after all, this was Lord Zhou’s matter, he did not dare to speak rashly.

Zhou An nodded and stepped onto the carriage with a short stool, sitting in the corner of the carriage with Hei Yu.

With the curtains of the carriage being pulled down, Black Jade started to skin up again, reaching out to touch Zhou An’s chest everywhere.

Zhou An had no choice but to take out his pink money bag and take out a string of candy figures in his own likeness from it, handing it to Black Jade.

After Black Jade received it, it was only then that she smiled joyfully and leaned on Zhou An’s shoulder, gobbling it up.

“Hyah!”

Accompanied by a loud shout from the driver, soon, the carriage was traveling in the direction of the city gates.

Along the way, there were quite a few people who were setting up stalls, and after seeing this luxurious carriage, all of them revealed expressions of surprise.

There were also quite a few Jianghu people who were wondering what kind of big shot was sitting inside.

But when these Jianghu people saw the sign of the carriage, as well as the curtains blowing up, after the people inside, all of them silently took a step back and lowered their heads.

Not because of anything else, because sitting in the carriage was Zhou An.

No matter what kind of heavenly pride you were, no matter what kind of old generation you were, as long as you were hanging out in this jianghu, when you saw Zhou An, you would have to lower your head as a human being.

This was not only because of Zhou An’s background, but also because of Zhou An’s strength.

Nowadays, there are even storytellers who have collected all of Zhou An’s deeds and turned them into a book to be sung in the jianghu.

From the rise of Anding County to his current position, he is simply a living legend.

No one dared to act recklessly in front of Zhou An, and even the person who first spread the title of Knife and Pot Duo Jie was also famous because of Zhou An.

Of course, it was rumored that this person was invited to Zhou An’s place not too long ago, and when he came out, both of his eyes were black, and he didn’t know what had happened.

Zhou An reached out his hand and covered the curtain of the carriage so that no one from the outside world could see what was going on inside, and returned to his original position to sit down again.

In fact, in his thought, he preferred some peaceful life, standing at the peak, just didn’t want his life to be disturbed by people.

A Liver Emperor, more like the liver, rather than the so-called glory.

Of course, this kind of stability of Zhou An was not the same as ordinary stability, his stability was to kill all the enemies around him, so that he could get real safety.

The horse was still traveling towards the front, probably after half a column of incense, the carriage gradually slowed down, and finally came to the city gate.

At this time, there were quite a few people guarding the city gate.

A man with a stout figure and a jug of spirits on his waist was also here, reviewing the soldiers around him.

This man had one characteristic, which was that you only had to take one look at him to know that it was a jug of spirits hanging from his waist.

Because above this jug of wine, there was the word spirits written on it, as if he was afraid that others wouldn’t know about it.

Seemingly seeing the carriage, the man strides over and says in a loud voice, “Brother Zhou An, why have you personally come to this city gate? Is it to see me?”

Zhou An was inside the carriage, and after hearing this voice, he shook his head helplessly, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and walked down with Black Jade, “Grand Prince, you don’t sit in the military camp, but you personally run to the city gates and all the streets every day to check on the soldiers, and you’re really doing it yourself.”

Ever since this place was pacified, Emperor Xingwu of the Great Chu Kingdom had sent the Grand Imperial Prince over with the purpose of maintaining order here.

Even though there was the Zhen Gui Si and the Yamen, if there was no army guarding the place, there would be quite a bit of chaos.

And after the Grand Prince came, he didn’t stay inside the barracks all the time, and from time to time, he would come to various places to patrol around.

Zhou An also did not expect that he would bump into it here.

The Grand Prince laughed loudly, with a look of I’m particularly magnificent, and as he walked next to Zhou An, he said, “Old Three is in a lot of trouble right now, and I’m running over here by myself just so I can dodge the trouble.”

“Haha, they all want to be the crown prince, but now that they really have to follow the rules of the crown prince, instead, they can’t be the crown prince for a bit.”

Hearing the eldest prince say this, Zhou An could not help but laugh out loud as well.

The third prince was now, really screaming for his life.

Why was that so, it was because some time ago, the Third Prince was really established as the Crown Prince due to Zhou An and also due to his own strength being truly outstanding.

As a result, after becoming the Crown Prince, the Third Prince suddenly felt as if he had lost hope in his life.

Before he became the Crown Prince, he managed various chambers of commerce, and it was a free-for-all.

However, after he became the crown prince, he learned from morning to night every day, almost without stopping.

Not only that, but he also had to make sure that his strength wouldn’t fall behind.

This made the Third Prince suddenly feel that his life, as if it had lost its luster.

Once, when the First Prince met Zhou An, he had said that he felt as if there was no light left in the eyes of the oldest three.

As for the second prince who was a failure, after hearing Zhou An’s few words in the first place, he had already turned his mindset around and no longer thought about the crown prince position, instead, he wanted to tutor the third prince.

However, every time he saw the third prince, the second prince felt relieved, because Emperor Xingwu was really strict.

This kind of strictness, not only from the top of learning things, even clothing, food, housing and transportation, must be strict requirements.

Every day, the third prince must be followed by a few eunuchs, observing his various situations, but also have to write up the folders, reported to the Xingwu Emperor in front.

Once there is a problem, Xingwu Emperor will call the three emperors to the imperial study, alone will talk about the heart.

And every time to talk about the heart, will certainly let the third prince downcast walk out.

Now, the crown prince’s position is finalized, the happy ones are the eldest prince and the second prince.

The Third Prince felt that he could no longer be happy.

“People have their own destiny.” After Zhou An finished this sentence, he continued, “At first, he had asked me to help him, and now that the purpose has been reached, and it’s not quite the same as what he had imagined, then he still has to do it the hard way.”

Once a choice was made, then it had to be done to the end.

The Grand Prince nodded, then from the soldier next to him, he took the wine altar and prepared to hand it to Zhou An.

Zhou An hurriedly waved his hand and said, “I can’t drink a little now, I might have to drink more later.”

The Grand Prince was slightly stunned, and only then remembered that Zhou An definitely had something to do when he came to the city gates this time, and in his excitement just now, he had almost forgotten about it.

Thinking about this, he handed the wine altar back before asking, “Brother Zhou, did you come over here to pick someone up? That’s not right. With your status nowadays, who else is worth coming over to meet in person?”

Important people were all here now, and if Zhou An was to pick up someone, it could never be to pick up any important person.

But for Zhou An to come over personally made the Grand Prince a little puzzled.

Just as the Grand Prince felt strange, Zhou An smiled mysteriously and said nothing, instead looking at this city gate.

The Grand Prince still had important matters to attend to, so he didn’t stay here for long, and after chatting with Zhou An for a couple of sentences, he left alone.

When he left, the jug of strong wine with the word “strong” written on his waist swayed, and that aura of bravado that made people feel a bit uncomfortable made the people around him incline their heads to one side.

The Grand Prince had left, but those jianghu people had not.

In this world, not only were ordinary people very gossipy, the Jianghu people were equally gossipy.

They were also all curious as to who exactly Zhou An had picked up.

Just like this, time gradually passed and came to noon in the blink of an eye.

Black Jade was a bit bored, so she hugged Zhou An’s arm and kicked the stones on the street.

Zhou An also had no choice but to cooperate with Black Jade, kicking the stones over and over.

This look was something that made those Jianghu people feel particularly horrified.

An existence that made all the geniuses and the vast majority of the older generation gasp for breath was outrageously like a child, accompanying a woman to play!

At noon, the sun rose.

Right at this time, two carriages came in from outside the city gates.

When these two carriages came in, all the Jianghu people cast their gazes over.

They knew that these two should be the people Zhou An was waiting for.

Zhou An stroked Black Jade’s head, telling her to stop being skinny, before he brought Black Jade up to the front.

The curtains of the carriages were lifted and a man and a woman walked down from the two carriages respectively.

The male was dressed in a scholar’s clothes, his scholarly aura came out, carrying the strength of a powerful All Saints realm expert.

While the woman was dressed in white with a veil over her face, her cold and clear expression was breathtaking, and she was likewise an expert of the All Saints Realm.

Zhou An first hugged the man and patted his shoulder, “Old Yu, long time no see.”

Yu Hang smiled and similarly patted Zhou An, “This time I came over, I won’t be leaving for a short time, Old Zhou, we need to drink tonight.”

Zhou An nodded his head and agreed, then turned his gaze to the woman next to him.

Ye Frost stared at Zhou An with cold eyes, but Zhou An could feel that in the cold eyes, there was a hint of fire.

“Long time no see, Ye Frost.” Zhou An said with a smile.

It should have been a very joyful thing for the closest friends to meet each other.

However, Black Jade was an expert in destroying the atmosphere.

Only to see Black Jade walk forward, take Ye Frost’s hand, and say very seriously, “Long time no see, Lao Er.”